Quality of Life

Eastchester: Man Charged with Murder in Fatal Gas Explosion at NYCHA’s Boston Secor Houses

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced Wednesday, Feb. 25, that a man has been charged with second-degree murder, burglary, assault and other related charges for allegedly instigating an early morning gas leak in a NYCHA apartment building in the Eastchester section of The Bronx which resulted in an explosion and fire that killed a tenant and caused dozens of other tenants to be evacuated at the height of the year’s first major snowstorm. Read our initial coverage of the fire, click here.  

Twenty-Two City Council Members Call on State to Give City Power to Tax Millionaires

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Twenty-two members, a minority, of the New York City Council’s 51 member-body released a joint statement on Wednesday, Feb. 25, calling on the State legislature and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to pass the Fair Share Act, legislation they say would grant New York City the authority to enact a 2% income tax increase on millionaires.  

Kingsbridge: Mom Asks Culprits to Turn Themselves in as Christopher Redding Remembered

By DAVID GREENE & SÍLE MOLONEY
In an interview on Valentine’s Day, Saturday, Feb. 14, a little more than 72 hours after getting a call to say her son had been shot and killed at West 238th Street and Broadway in the Kingsbridge section of The Bronx, the grieving mother of Christopher Redding, 16, recalled her son’s final day and decried the four teens who allegedly chased him down and shot him to death.

Beeline Buses Suspended until Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 4.30 a.m.

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Due to what was described as ongoing hazardous road conditions caused by the latest snowstorm, Bee-Line buses and Paratransit Service remains suspended for all of Monday, Feb. 23, and will resume on Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 4:30 a.m. according to Westchester County government officials.